The Dongas Tribe

Home-made, organic alternative to a hot-water bottle. Based on our Cochin Chinese bantam Snowy, I designed and made this from what I had available — a remnant of organic percale, left over from a sheet and the certified organic chicken grain I feed to our poultry. I have provided a link below for organic fabric and you can use all kinds of different sorts of grain. The heat/cold pad moulds to the body to relieve aches and pains from heaving pallets about and moving perches in cold weather. Organic Fabric Suppliers I use — if you know of any others please let me know. Greenfibres, Totnes, Devon ,UK. www.greenfibres.com – they also sell an organic undyed unbleached flannel, which would do really well. La Cantata du chanvre, 25000 Besançon, France. www.cantate-du-chanvre.com How I heat the warmer — in our woodburner at 150 deg C (approx 300F) for 15 minutes. I turn it several times and I cover it with baking paper to prevent any possible damage to embroidery. To use as a cold pad, freeze the Snowy warmer in a plastic bag for 3 hours and make a soothing treatment pad for sprains and bruises. There are many sites on the internet telling how to microwave and heat wheat warmers in a conventional oven. As I have no experience of these it is better to consult them. grain filled packs either heated or frozen, for use as hot or cold packs wheat filled heat pack bed buddies, stress busters, magic bags, corn cozies, rice bags Heatbag Wheatbags Wheat Filled Heat Pack Wheat Pack …